16 ANNUAL REPORTS OF DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE. 



years. The price of tobacco has risen somewhat, so that the total 

 value of the crop is about 11 per cent above the five-year average. The 

 value of the crop has gained more than the production. The value 

 has not been determined, but apparently it is about $97,000,000, an 

 amount that has been twice exceeded. 



FLAXSEED. 



Among the smaller crops flaxseed is the most valuable one, the 

 amount for this year being about $39,000,000, or 32.4 per cent above 

 the average value of the five preceding crops. This gain is partly 

 due to extraordinary crop failure in 1910. The production of 1912 

 has never been equaled and is 44.1 per cent above the five-year aver- 

 age. Its quantity is 29,755,000 bushels. 



RYE. 



Eye is one of the crops that remain nearly stationary in produc- 

 tion and vary little from year to year. The crop of 1912 contained 

 35,422,000 bushels and is the largest that has been produced by a 

 small margin. It is 10 per cent above the five-year average. The 

 total value of this crop, $24,000,000, has not gained in equal degree, 

 since it increased only 2.3 per cent over the five-year average; and 

 while the production was liighest, the total value was exceeded by 

 that of two other crops, those of 1910 and 1911. 



RICE. 



Although the production of the rice crop can not now be an- 

 nounced, the indications are that it has been exceeded by the produc- 

 tion of onl}'' one year, and that it is about 8 to 10 per cent above the 

 average production. This crop was damaged by the extraordinary 

 freshet of the Mississippi River last spring, or else the production 

 would, perhaps, have been a record one. The value of this crop is 

 unusually high and is far from being equaled by that of the crop of 

 any former year. It may amount to upward of $20,000,000. 



BUCKWHEAT. 



A decided tendency to increase in production has been manifested 

 in this crop in recent years. The production of 1912 is the largest 

 since 18G8 and is 19.3 per cent above the five-year average. The pro- 

 duction is small, as crops go in this country, and amounted to only 

 19,124.000 bushels in 1912, but the demand for this cereal is increas- 

 ing and there are practically no exports. The value of the crop of 

 this year is over $12,000,000 and exceeds the five-year average by 

 about 11 per cent. It has been exceeded since 1869 only in one year. 



